The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has slapped Caesars Entertainment with upwards of $50,000 in regulatory fines connected to violations of the state Casino Control Act for failing to properly register approximately 49 employees.
The 49 employees were spread across different departments of Caesars’ three Atlantic City properties, those being Caesars, Harrah’s and Tropicana. According to regulators, the departments included purchasing, information technology, marketing, human resources and credit, in which employees were retained for a number of years “without such employees holding the requisite casino employee registrations.”
Regulators further wrote in handing down the fine that Caesars failed to “maintain complete, accurate and current records for each of its employees, including license and registration numbers.” In a letter to Caesars dated May 3, 2021, DGE Executive Director David Rebuck notified the operator that it had self-reported it had employed seven IT specialists who had inactive casino employee registrations.
Caesars promised to weed out any more violations, and by last November, reported an additional 40 violations, with some employees never having been registered at all.
According to Rebuck, Caesars “did not submit monthly employment reports, where in some cases certain individuals were omitted from the monthly reports and in other cases the appropriate credential data was not included…. Any subsequent violations … by Caesars may result in further regulatory action by the division as appropriate under the circumstances.”
